The Tennessee Secretary of State’s initial review of the independent presidential petition for Chase Oliver shows that it lacks 40 valid signatures. The requirement is 275 and the campaign submitted 450. The campaign is engaged in efforts to review the work of the Secretary of State.

Tennessee approved these independent petitions: for the nominees of the Green, Socialist Workers, Socialism & Liberation Parties; and two independents, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Jay J. Bowman.

Tennessee rejected the Constitution Party presidential petition because that campaign collected some of the signatures on photocopies of blank forms, instead of on original blank forms.

The New York Times reports that an exhaustive study of election results in 2022 finds almost half of all partisan races only had one candidate on the ballot. See the article here.

Eric Hafner, one of the four candidates who will be on the ballot for the Alaska U.S. House race, is currently living in a prison in another state. See this story.